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A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent testified on Thursday that an investigation of two nephews of Venezuela's first lady started after a drug trafficker cooperating with authorities reported a meeting arranged by her brother, a high-ranking police official.

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One of the biggest factors in determining whether kids grow up to be healthy, successful adults, is the relationship of their parents.

While there isn't a set recipe for ensuring achievement and happiness, psychology research has pointed to a handful of factors about marriage, divorce, and the interaction within a relationship that can predict a child's success.

Often, dysfunctional relationships are found to have negative effects.

Here's... Читать дальше...

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Walmart is no longer selling Welspun's line of premium Egyptian cotton bed sheets after its supplier was unable to prove the sheets weren't knockoffs.

Less than a month after Target announced it would offer customers refunds for more than $90 million in Welspun's Egyptian cotton sheets, Walmart said it is also pulling Egyptian cotton Welspun sheets from its shelves and offering refunds, reports Bloomberg.

"Our customers trust us to provide products that are what they say... Читать дальше...

Colonel Sanders' nephew casually revealed to a reporter a recipe that had been passed down in a family scrapbook. KFC has denied that this recipe is authentic, but that hasn't stopped people from attempting to make it. 

Following its massive International Army Games, Russia is staging a series of worrisome military exercises for neighboring Ukraine and other global powers. 

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It might not be intentional, but there appears to be an arms race between the campaigns of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to see who can gather more endorsements from military officials.

This week, both campaigns have released several statements about endorsements from US generals and admirals.

The first, from Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, came on Tuesday. The title of the news release was, "88 RETIRED U.S. GENERALS AND ADMIRALS ENDORSE TRUMP."... Читать дальше...

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Wells Fargo is on the hook for $185 million in fines after settling charges brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of widespread abusive and illegal sales practices dating back to the beginning of 2011. 

The company, which is the largest US bank by market capitalization, has fired some 5,300 employees in connection with the scandal, in which workers quietly took advantage of customers in an effort to reap rewards and game an employee-incentive program. Читать дальше...

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Filming will be underway for the next "Avengers" movie soon and the directors of the movie are already sharing a look behind the scenes.

Anthony and Joe Russo shared a rehearsal photo with Josh Brolin who will be starring as the Avengers main foe, Thanos. Known as the Mad Titan, he’s the one going after all of the power stones spread across the Marvel movies. We first saw him teased in 2012’s "Avengers" and finally got a good look at him in "Guardians of the Galaxy."

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Darren Tay, a 27-year-old Singaporean lawyer, became the 2016 Toastmasters International world champion of public speaking in August, surviving several rounds of a competition that lasted six months and included more than 30,000 competitors from Toastmasters public speaking clubs around the world.

He's been refining his public speaking skills since he was in high school, and in 2009 he founded the Public Speaking Academy in Singapore.

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A local Fox affiliate reports that Attorney General Brad Schimel, on behalf of Warden Michael Dittmann and the State of Wisconsin, has filed an appeal in the decision to free Brendan Dassey, a subject of the Netflix docuseries "Making a Murderer."

The now 26-year-old Dassey was convicted — along with his uncle, Steven Avery — at age 17 of the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach. He was sentenced to life in prison.

On August 12, a federal magistrate ordered Dassey be freed... Читать дальше...

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I have been to all 198 countries in less than 10 years, while maintaining a full-time job throughout — and managing to write a book about the mad and often outrageous experiences.

In Norway that means 5 weeks of holiday annually plus around 2 weeks worth of national holidays.

So, how in the world is it possible to visit every country in such a relatively short amount of time?

1. You can travel quite far on a weekend. And there are 52 weekends a year. Читать дальше...

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After more than 40 straight days of the S&P 500 closing inside of a 1% range, markets finally sold off on Friday.

All three major indices finished in the red.

Let's head to the scoreboard:

• Dow: 18,087.23, -393.68,(-2.12%)
• S&P 500: 2,127.81, -53.49, (-2.45%)
• Nasdaq: 5,125.91, -133.57, (-2.54%)
• WTI crude oil: $45.61, -2.01, (-4.22%)
• 10-year yield: 1.673, +0.057, (+3.54%)

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To keep the many men and machines in fighting shape during the World War II invasion of France, logistics technicians sure had their work cut out for them. Bomb, bullets, planes and tanks were top priorities, so there was little room for luxury items that’d keep the troops in good spirits while fighting Nazis.

And when a British brewery donated gallons of beer for troops on the front, there was no way to get it to the men by conventional means.

Enter Britain’s Royal Air Force. Читать дальше...

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NPR recently published a fascinating analysis of the link between Facebook use and our emotional lives.

The author, Jon Brooks, a reporter and editor at KQED's Future of You blog, explains why assessing the social network's relative merits and dangers is perhaps more complicated than it seems.

And that's not just because of the scientist's standard refrain — Facebook's effects "depend on the person" — it's also because there are so many different ways to use Facebook. Читать дальше...

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged seven current and former San Francisco Bay Area police officers in a sexual misconduct scandal involving a teenager.

Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced the charges Friday at a news conference in Oakland.

The wide-ranging scandal surfaced when a teenage woman who described herself as a prostitute said she had sex with about 30 law enforcement officials throughout the region.

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North Korea’s fifth nuclear test this morning was not a surprise. On multiple occasions over the past six months, senior officials (including Kim Jong-un, the North’s impetuous young leader) have openly disclosed plans for additional testing.

In March—while on a visit to a nuclear research and development facility—Kim said the next test would occur “in a short time” and that it would be a “a nuclear warhead explosion test.” Despite near-universal opposition and warnings of additional pressure and sanctions... Читать дальше...

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There's an old adage that says, "You get what you pay for."

But strangely, paying more doesn't always mean you get more.

In many product categories, you're actually better off buying the cheaper version of an item.

Depending on how you measure value, higher-priced items can actually be a big disappointment when compared against their bargain counterparts.

If you want to avoid diminishing returns on your next big purchase, we've rounded up 10 items... Читать дальше...

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When we talk about brain injuries in sports, we talk a lot about football. We mention boxing and mixed martial arts and might talk about repeated head trauma in soccer or hockey, but we mostly talk about football.

There's good reason for that, but that doesn't mean that less traditional sports are incident free or brain injury free. The adventure sports world was rocked by the revelation earlier this year that the autopsy of BMX biker Dave Mirra... Читать дальше...

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The NFL's concussion protocol is under fire once again.

During the regular-season kickoff Thursday night, Carolina Panthers quarterback sustained several hits to the head by Denver Broncos players, yet never left the game to be examined.

The NFL has tried to beef up its player-safety rules in recent years, but one such measure has a basic flaw that makes it difficult to enact.

During NFL games, there are now unaffiliated certified athletic trainers (ATCs)... Читать дальше...

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From the trailer for "Arrival," which just showed at the Toronto International Film Festival, you'd assume it's a CGI-heavy sci-fi movie about aliens coming to earth to make contact. If they come in peace or to destroy us is the question that's left open.

But that's just the hook to get you in the theater. The truth is "Arrival," directed by Denis Villeneuve ("Sicario," "Prisoners") and starring Amy Adams, is a moving story that is more about humanity than whether beings from the sky come in peace. Читать дальше...

We are only one game into the season and the NFL is already under fire for how Cam Newton was battered in the Carolina Panthers' loss to the Denver Broncos.

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An amazing drama unfolded this week in Israel's tech community after tech startup Shellanoo Group filed to go public in the Tel Aviv stock exchange.

The tight-knit community, who knew the company's work intimately was appalled at some of the claims made in the IPO documents, with one VC calling the company a "sham." 

They led an uprising on Facebook and eventually shut-down the IPO.

With no IPO coming to provide income, Shellanoo Group reportedly laid off half of its workforce... Читать дальше...

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We're always on the hunt for the perfect weekend bag — one that's sturdy but stylish, light-weight but spacious. These 8 meet all our needs ... and more.

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The legal-weed industry faces many unique challenges to doing business.

Most companies in the space are frozen out of banks, can't use credit cards for transactions, and can't get loans. It all creates huge headaches for the industry.

On top of that, marijuana is like any other commodity: When there's a supply glut, the price plummets. And that's exactly what's happening in legal markets like Colorado.

Cultivators are ramping up production and the price of marijuana is dropping... Читать дальше...